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ICANN Opens .net Redelegation Consultation
Joel Rowbottom writes "The first public draft criteria for the redelegation of the .net gTLD to Verisign's successor (due on 30th June 2005) to a new registry operator is out, and the public comments period commenced on 28th May.It's pretty similar to the .org redelegation criteria. The ICANN announcement is here and gives opportunity to submit comments prior to the final procedure which will be posted at the end of June."
...we'll have the last piece of evidence that they're entirely toothless. Verisign has done a lousy job along every axis, from high fees to poor coordination to the ridiculous "SiteFinder" service. ICANN has tolerated all this, even waiting to get angry about SiteFinder until everyone else did.
ICANN should dump Verisign even if they have the lowest bid. Which they won't. But if they hold onto Verisign, it means they're either scared of Verisign's attorneys (since I'm sure Verisign will sue, since they have no other business) or are totally unable to make important decisions.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers added an unexpectedly large 248,000 jobs in May, according to a government report on Friday that confirmed a strengthening economy likely to soon bring higher interest rates.
The May tally exceeded Wall Street expectations for 216,000 new jobs and followed an upwardly revised total of 346,000 jobs in April and 353,000 in March. The 947,000 jobs created in the March-May period made it the strongest for any three months in four years.
The cascading evidence of accelerating economic activity is certain to reinforce expectations that Federal Reserve policymakers will ratchet U.S. interest rates up from current 46-year lows when they meet June 29-30 and may prove a boon to election-bound President Bush.
The unemployment rate remained at 5.6 percent in May, unchanged from April.
Virtually every major sector of the economy added jobs in May, from retailing to construction industries. Particularly notable were 32,000 new hires in manufacturing -- a fourth straight monthly increase and the biggest for any month since August 1998 when 143,000 manufacturing jobs were created, the department said.
Nearly 1.2 million jobs have been added since the start of the year, adding fodder for a campaigning Bush to blunt Democratic criticisms fueled by the slow recovery from the 2001 recession.
Private industry has shown that they are unwilling or unable to administrate the Internet base services.
It is time that the government step in and turn the Internet into a public utility. This is the only way to get rid of leeches like Verisign. Put the power back in the hands of the people instead of in the hands of a monied few. Democracy in action, folks. Don't let the door slam those fuckers in the ass on the way out.
........I'd say give it to the UN and make internet regulation part of the international bureaucracy. Scared though I would be of unwieldy bureaucracy and pressure from the "monied few" *cough*USgovernment*cough* putting internet regulation into the hands of the international community could be a step on the way towards the internet as a public utility and a "creative commons".
Not that I don't join in, but they love to see people stand around, do nothing and bitch about stuff while they send in a proposal, back up a big truck and fill it with money.
Its a small club but they extend control to new realms with the same ease that you and create new posts, it is demoralizing...
Slashdot and all the rest are pressure relief valves (same as the karma crap in India - a method by which the rich use past lives to blame the poor for being poor and don't you dare be bad this time or you'll make it even worse) to prevent the dissatisfaction from building to an untenable level and if they fail then there is always law enforcement.
Sorry, the dns issues get to me more than other tech issues.